Conservation Connect

Conservation Connect is a web-based video series produced by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Conservation Training Center (NCTC). Our goal is to connect a new generation of conservationists, ages 8-16, with the great outdoors, wildlife species, and conservation careers. Conservation Connect is available to youth groups, schools, home-schoolers, nature centers, and other educational programs throughout the country, free of charge.

Formal and non-formal educators are encouraged to watch the introductory overview of Conservation Connect, which will demonstrate how this video series can supplement the use of existing environmental education curriculum, citizen science projects, and STEM content (science, technology, engineering, and math). The overview will highlight a segment featuring the American Bald Eagle, one of conservation’s biggest success stories.

Each 6-8 minute episode of Conservation Connect will feature a specialist and include footage of a species. For example, during one episode, an educational specialist will discuss manatee behavior and a law enforcement officer will demonstrate the use of high tech tools used to arrest wildlife poachers. Viewers are encouraged to spend time outdoors, observe wildlife in their own communities, and learn more about natural resource conservation.

Attention Educators: We'd love to hear how you use Conservation Connect videos with students! Please e-mail or call Randy Robinson with your comments and suggestions. Randy_Robinson@fws.gov or Phone: 304-876-7450.

On the third Thursday of every month
at 2:00pm ET, students have the opportunity
to
view a U.S.
Fish and
Wildlife Service
Conservation Connect episode and chat with Conservation Professionals LIVE. Mark
your school calendars
for the dates below!

Nat'l Wildlife Refuge

Paddlefish

Pilot Biologist

Salamander

Small Mammals

Spoonbill

“Once the emotions have been aroused… a sense of the beautiful, the
excitement of the new and the
unknown, a feeling of sympathy, pity,
admiration or love…
then we wish for knowledge
about the object of
our emotional response.”

From The Sense of Wonder by Rachel Carson, 1956

Click on the map above to take you to view a map
displaying many of
the refuges and wetland management districts in that state.